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TINYFUGUE  [client]
The classic UNIX terminal client. Upstream has not released since 2007; a
maintained fork carries it forward.
https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/
Runs on: Linux, macOS, BSD

Capabilities
  Read off each project's own documentation, not measured by us — a client has
  no handshake for us to observe. "unknown" means we looked and did not
  establish it. It never means no.

  screen reader    unknown
  TLS              yes
      https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/
  UTF-8            unknown
  MCCP             yes
      https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/
  GMCP             unknown
  MSDP             unknown
  ATCP             unknown
  MXP              unknown
  MSP              unknown
  scripting        yes
      https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/

  7 of 10 rows are unknown: we did not find the project's own documentation
  saying either way. A short honest table beats a long guessed one.

TinyFugue — "tf" — is the terminal client a large part of the MUSH world used
for two decades, with separate panes for input and output, a macro language of
its own, and a set of habits that have outlived several of its competitors.

Upstream is dormant: the last release is 5.0 beta 8, from January 2007. It still
builds and it still works.

A maintained fork, TinyFugue Rebirth, is actively released and adds GMCP, ATCP,
wide-character support through ICU, and Python and Lua scripting alongside the
native macro language. The table above describes upstream, because that is what
"TinyFugue" resolves to; if you are installing today, the fork is worth looking
at first.

THE TRAP IN THIS CLIENT'S DOCUMENTATION

Upstream has a documentation topic called "non-visual mode". It is not about
assistive technology — it concerns keeping input confined to the bottom line —
and it mentions no screen reader, no speech and no blind users anywhere. A
capability table assembled by keyword search would turn that filename into a
yes. This one says unknown, because that is what the documentation supports.

UTF-8 is the same shape of answer: the documented encoding support is for 8-bit
ISO 8859 character sets, and we found no upstream statement about UTF-8 either
way.

See also
  TinTin++ — /reference/clients/tintin
  Blightmud — /reference/clients/blightmud